Claude Fable is AWESOME - Bad Crypto #810

It's a bear market, so the bad boys of crypto are doing what builders do: shipping. Bitcoin sits at $61,873, the altcoins are in the crapper, and Joel has officially divorced his bags. Travis explains why the 4-year cycle is alive and well, with a projected bottom around mid-October — plus Michael Saylor's 32-BTC head fake and the trader who built his own exchange from a 42-page prompt. Then it goes full mad-scientist. Travis builds a "Culture Shock" site of World Cup visitors reviewing America in 20 minutes with Claude's new Fable model, then ships Viddl — an app that downloads video from YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram or LinkedIn. Joel premieres his AI-generated origin story film (1978, a food court paycheck, and a TRS-80 in a Radio Shack window) and announces his Acumen daily puzzle games are headed to the App Store. Plus SpaceX IPOs as $SPCX at a $1.8 trillion valuation, and OpenAI and Anthropic file to go public. "The technology that we're using now to build stuff is the worst that it's going to be." — Joel